Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Quotes

Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Game
  • Training

• I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Work
  • Long
  • Done

• There is very strong historical data that suggests the way societies grow is by making large, long-term investments.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Long
  • Strong
  • Grow

• There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Future
  • Wish
  • Ending

• For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • Know
  • Me
  • Learn

• My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Love
  • Job
  • Fear

• I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Real
  • Want
  • Funny

• The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Job
  • You
  • Looks

• I would like to be a polyglot.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Like
  • Would

• I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Guy
  • Game
  • Kind

• There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • Song
  • Ideas

• In Mexico, theater is very underground, so if you're a theater actor it's very difficult to make a living. But it's also a very beautiful pathway to knowledge and to an open education.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Beautiful
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Long
  • Grief

• I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Book
  • History
  • Friend

• I live by a rulebook of eating alkaline - no meat, no dairy, no gluten, I try to stay away from sugar - but I'll cheat when I want to since I'm a bit of a foodie.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Live
  • Eating
  • Meat

• Proper love should be utterly supportive and comfortable, and it feels like a raincoat or a jacket potato.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Love
  • Feels
  • Comfortable

• Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Men
  • Live
  • Commitment

• In my office I have a sign that says, 'Don't think. Just write!' and that's how I work. I try not to worry about each word, or even each sentence or paragraph. For me, stories evolve. Writing is a process. I rewrite each sentence, each manuscript, many times.

  

  David A. Adler
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Worry

• I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be.

  

  James Purefoy
  • World
  • Believe
  • Interesting

• The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Wishes
  • Selfishness
  • Guardian

• Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

  

  Lennart Meri
  • Nature
  • Science

• Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Country
  • Community
  • Better

• Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Science
  • Ocean
  • Fish